ME 'BEE: OMAtiA, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1919.
CITY FORMALLY
AWARDS 5-YEAR
GARBAGE RIGHT
HenniEoIlack to Pay $45,000
' a Year for Collection and
Disposal, According to
Contract.
j - The city council yesterday formal
' y awarded to Henry Pollack a five
year garbage contract, the city to
pay $45,000 a year for the collection
and disposal of all garbage.
'The contract will provide that Pol
lack ' shall furnish all equipment
necessary for sanitary collection and
disposal of garbage and that he" will
observe rules and regulations pre
scribed by he city in the carrying
out of the contract agreement
Giant Pickpocket Sought
For Theft of Diamond Ring
Police are searching for; a sneak'
thief 6 feet 6 inches tall, who stole
a purse from Mrs. W. D. Counsman,
5007 Capitol avenue, while she was
transacting business in the Paxton
block Wednesday afternoon. The
"' purse contained a Masonic ring set
with diamonds valued at $300.
v
STUPENDOUS SALE
OF LACE CURTAINS AT
BOW EN'S SATURDAY
Greater still become the sav
ing on the purchasing" of la.ee
curtains for the home if the
selection is made from the
thousands of pairs offered at
the H. R. Bowen Co. Saturday.
In this Saturday sale are
curtains for every use, every
purpose; curtains priced as low
as 59 cents a pair and up to
$15.95 a pair, each pair so re
duced in price that it would
pay one to select curtains for
immediate and future use.
It's the decorative harmony
of the home that places each
room at its best and curtains
play a most important part, so
be at the store early to secure
curtains of the style you want.
While there are thousands of
pairs offered, they cannot last
long at the price at which they
are marked. Extra clerks have
been engaged to facilitate
shopping and to eliminate all
delays. Again we say come
early.
" THE
WOMAN IN BLACK
By EDMUND CLERIHEW BENTLEY
"Copyrlcht. b Century company.
CHAPTER XXIV.
"Hitherto Umpublished" (Con
tinued.) (
Now it was clear at a glance that
Manderson was always thoroughly
well shod and careful, perhaps a little
vain, of his small anH narrow feet
Not one of the other shoes in the
collection, as I soon ascertained,
bore similar marks; they had not be
longed to a man who squeezed him
self into tight shoe leather. Some
one who was not Manderson had
worn these shoes, and worn them
recently; the edges of the tears are
quite fresh.
The possibility of someone having
worn thenv . since Manderson's
death was not worth considering;
the body had only been found about
26 hours when I was examining the
shoes; besides why should any one
wear them? The possibility of some
one having borrowed Manderson's
shoes and spoiled them for him,
while bf was alive, seemed about as
negligible. With others to choose
from he would not have worn these.
Beside, the only men in the place
were the butler and the two secre
taries. But I do. not - say that I
gave those possibilities even as much
consideration as they deserved; for
my thoughts were running away with
me; and I have always found it
good policy, in cases of this sort, to
let them have their heads. Ever
since I had got out of the train at
Marlst5ne early that morning I had
been steeped in details of the Man
derson affair; the thing had not once
been out of my head. Suddenly the
moment had come when the daemon
wakes and begins to range.
Let me put it less fancifully.
After all, it is a detail of phychology
familiar enough to all whose busi
or inclination brings them in con
tact with difficult affairs of any
sort. Swiftly and spontaneously,
when chance or effort puts one in
possession of the key-fact in any
system of baffling circumstances,
one's ideas seem to rush to group
themselves anew in relation to that
fact, so that they are suddenly re
arranged almost before one has con
sciously grasped the significance of
the key-fact itself. In the present
instance, my brain had scarcely
formulated within itself the thought,
'Somebody who was not Manderson
has been wearing those shoes,' when
there flew into rny mind a flock of
ideas, all of the same character and
all bearing upon this new notion.
It was unheard of for Manderson to
drink- much whisky at night. It
sooke to her at all. It was extraor
dinary that Manderson should
leave his bed room without his false
teeth.
All these though as I say, came
flocking into my mind together,
drawn from various parts of my
memory of the morning's inquiries
nd observations. They had all pre
sented themselves, in far less time
than it takes to read them as set
down here, as I was turfing over the
shoes, confirming my own certainty
on the-main point. And yet when I
confronted the definite idea that had
sprung up suddenly and unsup
ported before me, It was not Man
derson who was in the house that
knight it seemed a stark absurdity at
me nrsi iormuiating. if was cer
tainly Manderson who had dined
at the house and gone out &ith Mar
lowe in the car. People had seen
him at close quarters. But was it he
who returned at 10?. That question
too seemed absurd enough. But I
could not set. it aside. It seemed
to me as if a faint light was be
ginning to creep over the whole ex
panse of my mind, as it does over
land at dawn, and that presently
the sun would be rising. I set my
self to think over, one by one, the
points that had just occurred to me.
fo as to make out, if possible, why
ny man masquerading as Mander
son should have done these things
that Manderson woqld not have
done.
I had not to cast about very long
for the motive a man might have in
forcing his . feet into Manderson's
narrow shoes. The examination of
footmarks is very well understood
by the police. But not only was the
man concerned to leave no foot
marks of his own. He was con
cerned to leave Manderson's, if any;
his whole plan, if my guess was
right, must have been directed to
producing the belief that Mander
son was in the place that night.
Moreover, his plan did not turn
upon leaving footmarks. He meant
to leave the shoes themselves, and
he did so. The maid-servant had
found them outside the bedroom
door, as Manderson always left his
shoes, and had polished them, re
placing them, on the shoe shelves
later in the morning, after the body
had been found.
When I came to consider in this
new light the leaving of the false
teeth, an explanation of what had
seemed the maddest part of the af
fair broke upon me at once. A den
tal plate is not inseparable from its
owner. If my guess was right, the
FARMER LAYS BY
THE BIGGEST CROP
HE EVER MADE
Short Able to Do Heavy Work
Slope Tanlac Builds Him
Up Gains 21 'Pounds.
"I have just gotten through the
biggest harvest I ever had, and I
know if it hadn't been for Tanlac
-building me up like it has, I
wouldn't have been able to stand up
under the heavy work and the lone
hurs,, said Harry Short, a well
known farmer of Heyworth, 111.,
while in the Shorthose Drug Store
in Bloomington, 111., recently.
"I Had been having trouble with
my stomach for close on to ten
years," continued Mr. Short. "At
times it just looked like everything
I ate soured, formed gas and bloat
ed me up so tight that jI was in
misery and I suffered a lot with
cramps; in fact, sometimes I
couldn't even take a drink of cold
water without having these cramps.
When I had these spells with, my
stomach I was nearly always trou
bled with attacks of dizziness and
I finally got so run down in health
that I fell off over twenty pounds
in weight and was so terribly thin
and weak that I just wasn't able
to do any hard work of any sort.
I was m just this shape when I
took the 'flu' last winter and that,
along with the pneumonia that came
on later, pretty near put an end to
me and I certainly had a hard fight
to ven pull through, and when I
finally did get up I was in worse
fix than before. I was so weak
1 couldn't even walk to the barn
without giving out completely and
my stomach was in such bad shape
that soup was about all I could eat
and I didn't have a bit of appetite
and just the smell of food nauseat
ed me.
"I tried different medicines and
treatments but nothing seemed to
do me a particle of good until I
began taking Tanlac and it is this
medicine that I owe the good health
. I have today. I had just about
finished my first bottle of Tanlac
when I could notice that my
strength and energy were coming
back to me and it also seemed to
do my stomach a powerful lot of
good right from the start and my
appetite began to pick up. So I
kept right on taking it and now I
can hardly wait for meal time to
come and when I do sit down to
. the table I can certainly eat a
plenty and nothing I eat gives me
a bit of trouble afterwards. I feel
as strong and sound as I ever did
in my whole life and can do more
work and put in longer hours at it
than I ever could. I have earned
twenty-one pounds in weight and
actually feel like Tanlac has made
xne over completely, . because I
really haven t felt so good since I
was a boy and a medicine that will
', do as much for me as Tanlac has
done certainly deserves praise and
I, for one, am going to give it
plenty."
Tanlac is sold in Omaha at all
Sherman & McConnell Drug Com
pany's - stores, Harvard Pharmacy
and West End Pharmacy. Also For
rest and Meany Drug Company in
South Omaha and the leading drug
fist in each city and town through
out the atate of Nebraska. Adv.
dressed, as the body was when found
the cutis dragged up inside the
sleeves, the shoes unevenly laced;
very unlike him not to wash, when
he rose, and to put on last night's
evening shirt and collar and under
clothing; very unlike him to have
his watch in the. waistcoat pocket
that was not lined with leather for
its reception. (In my first dispatch
I mentioned all these 'points, but
neither I" nor any one else saw
anything significant in them, when
examining the body.) R was very
strange, in the existing domestic
situation, that Manderson should be
communicative to his wife about
was very unlike him to be untidilyflinknown had brought the denture
to the house with him, and 'left it
in the bedroom, with the same ob
ject as he had in leaving the shoes;
to make it impossible that any one
should doubt that Manderson had
been in the house and had gone to
bed there. This, of course, led me to
the inference that Manderson was
dead before the false Manderson
came to the house; and other things
confirmed this.
For instance, the clothing, to
which I now turned in my review
of the position: if my guess was
right, the unknown in Manderson's
shoes had certainly had possession
of Manderson s trousers, waistcoat
room; nd Martin had seen the
jacket whk-h nobody could have
mistaken upon the man who sat at
the telephone in the library. It was
now quite plain (if my guess was
right) that this unmistakable gar
ment was a cardinal feature of the
unknown's plan. He knew that
Martin would take him for Mander
son at the first glance.
And there my thinking was in
terrupted by the realization ' of a
thing that -had escaped me before.
Sc strong had been the influence of
the unquestionable assumption that
it was Manderson who was present
that night, that neither I nor. so far
as I know any one else had noted
the point. Martin had not seen the
man s face; nor had Mrs. Mander
son. ,
Mrs. Manderson, (judging by her
evidence at the inquest, of which,
as I have said, I had a full report
made by the Record stenographers
in court) had not seen the man at
all. She hardly could have done,
as I shall show presently. She had
merely spoken with him as she lay
half asleep, resuming a conversation
which she had had with her living
husband about an hour before. Mar
tin, I perceived, could only have seen
the man's back, as he sat crouching
over the telephone; no doubt a char
acteristic pose was imitated there.
And the man. had worn his hat, Man
derson's broad-brimmed hatl There
is too much character in the back of
a head and neck. The unknown, in
fact, supposing him to have Keen
of about Manderson's build, had had
no need for any5 disguise, apart from
the jacket and the hat and his pow
ers of mimicry. ,.
I paused there to contemplate the
coolness and ingenuity of the man.
The thing, I now began to see, was
so safe and easy, provided that his
mimcry was good enough, and that
his nerve held. Those two points
assured, only some wholly unlikely
accident could unmask him.
(Continued Tomorrow.)
My HEART and
My HUSBAND
Adele Garrison's New Phase of
Revelations
of a, Wife
turned ashen at my question, re
mained in my childish memory, then
gradually faded, because neither of
us ever had referred to the incident
again. '
But at the woman's muttered ex
clamation my mother's face flashed
before me as plainly as if her living
self stood ft the room, her voice,
shaken, roughentd to raucousness
from its usual soft accents, sounded
in my ears as it had done on that
long-gone day. (
"Never that name, child! Never
let it cross your lips!"
"Why?" I asked with childish in
quisitiveness. She stooped, took my face be
tween her hands and spoke with a
sort of cold intensity that made me
shiver.
''Because the person I loathe most
in the world used to call me 'Meg'
when we were girls together," she
said. "She killed my happiness. She
is the worst woman in the world.
If you ever allow yourself to use"
that name, even when you are
grown, I shall know it if I am 20
years dead."
I do not think she realized that
she was speaking to a child, or,
indeed, just what she was saying,
so carried away was she by the
hateful memory that shook her. In
another moment she caught my
shrinking ,childish figure to her, and
I felt her tears upon my face.
"Forgive me, little daughter," she
said, "and forget that mother spoke
this way. Only never let me hear
that name again."
And here, after so many years,
fate had brought me face to face
with the woman my mother had so
hated.
She Masters Herself.
The loathing was not all on the
part of my mother. Hatred had
spoken in every inflection of the
woman's voice when she had ut
tered the words which had brought
me tempestuously from my hiding
place, behind the alcove curtains. It
was a ' hatred, I surmised, which
must have had its foundation before
my mother's marriage in secret
jealousy over the man who had
wooed and won my mother, a hair
red which must have been cleverly
concealed for the early years of my
mother's married life, which had
come to poisonous flowering in the
theft of my father's love, and which
still lived on in that most awful
form, rancor against the dead.
Her superstitious terror lastea
but the few seconds which framed
the pictures of the past flashing in
kaleidoscopic succession through
my brain. With a perceptible
squaring of her shoulders to meet
the new situation she took her arm
from before her face and looked at
me, steadily, sneeringly.
"Ah, we come now to the real
occupant of the woodpile!" she said.
"Hope you've enjoyed your stay be
hind the curtains, my dear. How
pleased your father will be when
he learns of your sneaking into my
apartment in this manner And
don't you ever forget that I'll tell
him. He'll have a word or two to
say to you, my lady. Don't you
think for one minute that he'll stand
for having this insult put upon the
woman he "
(Continued Tomorrow.)
Hot Summer Sun v
Trying on the Complexion
How to Protect Your Skin and Bring Roses to
Your Cheeks
A Oatmeal Prescription Doe lu
Work Ovarnicht. You Can
Prepare It at Horn.
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Kusriintee ov department jtorea and all ojUBisti.
mXlliis Sherman & McConnell. the Beaton and
I lie Merrltt lmist stores. aoy.
In i
If- ' ' - u
his doings, especially at the time and shooting jacket. They were
of his going to bed, -when he seldom ) there hofere my eyes in the bed-
Why Madge's Sudden Appearance
Unnerved "The Lady."
For a brief, tense interval I
thought the woman I was confront
ing would swoon. As she saw me
rush from the alcove at her slurring
reference to my dead mother she
half started from her chair, the color
drained from her face, and she
threw one arm in front of her eyes
as if to shut out t,he sight of 'me.
It was not physical fear which
actuated her. I knew that, she was
no coward. It was rather a flash
of terrified superstition a weakness
often found, inconsistently enough,
in women of her type caused by
the marvelous resemblance I am
said to bear to my dead mother.
"Don't, Meg!" her stiff lips mut
tered, and , the diminutive name
struck a chord in my memory silent
since childhood.
With the fondness of a girl child
for coining names for herself, I an
nounced one day to my mother that
I wished her to call herself and me,
her namesake, by the "little name
Meg" instead of the "big name Mar
garet." For a long time the picture
of rhy mother's face, suddenly
n iiiiii i tw i rt
(From The Omaha Bee, July 16, 1919.)
WOODEN SHOE ERA
PROMISED IN THE U. S.
New York, July 15 (By
Universal Service.) Within the
next 12 months the clatter of
wooden shoes will be heard
down Broadway or Fifth aven
ue, according to Weldon Harri
son, shoe manufacturer.
He predicted that the in
crease in the price of leather
would result in the coming of
wooden shoes for all classes. An
ordinary pair of shoes will be
worth about $20 by July, 1920,
he said.
Delayed by factory strike 1,000 pairs,
of fine Florsheim Summer Oxfords have ar
rived and must be put on sale at once to
make room for Fall Shoes wfiich are now
arriving. Never in our history have we had
so many Summer Oxfords on hand this late
in the season. Prices are greatly reduced
in order to clear these Shoes out quickly.
Shoes are still going up. Fall prices will
be in effectfter sale. Buy now and you
make a double saving.
Florsheim Oxfords, "let!1' $10.85
Florsheim Oxfords, $1lJu $8.85
Florsheim Oxfords,
$9 aluea $7.85
2
SPECIAL-Florsheim Black Calf
and Kid Oxfords, . . . $4.85
Worthmore Oxfords, ,ss7o"."t-$6.85
Worthmore Oxfords, $4.85
SPECIAL Worthmore Black
Oxfords, $3.85 and $4.85
Starr -Kingman Shoe Co.
A. A. MUSE, Manager.
V
315 South 16th St.
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